There may be as few as 25 Borneo rhinos left in the world, making it one of the world's rarest animal species. The first still photograph of a Borneo rhino was taken only last year. Now, a World Wildlife Foundation project has captured the first video footage of the Borneo rhino. (via Arbroath)

Gelli Baff turns a normal bath into a pool of brightly-colored gelatinous goop.

The Bronx Zoo is experimenting with turning poop into fertilizer. No, not just animal poop, human, too!

Suicide Food is an alarming term referring to advertising in which an animal acts as though they wish to be eaten. It’s also the name of a blog devoted to such depictions.

Homeless. Australian documentary director Trevor Graham filmed a day in the life of a homeless person in each of six cities: Sydney, New York, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, and London. The resulting stories are broken into many parts (which you can select individually). You may be surprised at the many ways people can find themselves without a home.

The Supreme Court last week upheld a ban against late-term abortions. Here are some other medical procedures that should be banned for moral reasons.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

The winners of the BOB Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Monty for winning Best Podcast and NYC Educator for winning Best Educational/Homeschooling Blog! Konagod came in second for Best GLBT Blog, and Omegamom came in third for Best Infertility/Adoption Blog. Way to go!

Try this vision test. I got up to about level 4, then realized how much time I was wasting (it's fun). Several items I still don’t understand, but found the answers by process of elimination. (via Dump Trumpet)

Obscene Interiors. Justin Jorgensen took photos that men send into dating services, removed the men (they were often naked anyway), and critiqued them by what the room behind them says about their personalities.

A mother and daughter who hadn’t spoken to each other in two years have a second chance after reports of Jennifer Jordan’s death turned out to be greatly exagerated.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

The machinima film Deviation combines existential angst with shoot-em-up videogames in a way that will make you laugh. It’s now entered into a film contest at Machinama.com. Take a look, and if you like it, click on the fifth star to the right. You can see other entries here.

Defenders of Wildlife is a non-profit environmental group. To get your notice, they have a morphing application called You Wild that can change your picture into one of 20 wild animals! Here’s me as a wildcat and as an owl.

UFO porno. From Finland, where Miss Cellania is more popular than here in the States. Because I post stuff like this.